chop off

Verb

Meaning

remove by or as if by cutting

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

lop prune crop dock slice sliced severing cut-off sever chop pruning slicing snipping snip amputate
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Antonyms

moor truss chain couple rope anchor
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Hypernyms

detach come off come away

Hyponyms

roach abscise

Examples

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. Henry Miller

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. Auguste Rodin

You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for, if you are honest, you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one. P. L. Travers

If something that was going to chop off your head only knocked off your cap, you should be grateful. Yoruba Proverb

Does the left hand chop off the right? Darkovan Proverb

When you chop off a snake's head all you are left with is a piece of rope. Bambara Proverb

Close letter words and terms

chop house chop it up chop mill chop out chop prices chop saw